Status: Currently disgruntled.

So as you all know, I like to grow sunflowers for the summer. And I like the less usual varieties for... reasons. Anyway, I have purchased a packet of a variety called "Black Beauty" which grows in the shape of a horse which is a really deep chocolate colour. It looks gorgeous on the picture on the packet, deep and dark petals and stamens shining in contrast with their glorious yellow richness and pollen clearly dripping onto the lower petals. Yes it looks gorgeous. Which is why I bought it, because I like to help our pollen hungry friends like bees (who really need all the help they can get, did you know it turns out that neonicotinoids are bee-heroin? Deeply addictive and sweet-tasting, but completely brainwrecking. Once a bee gets addicted to neonics it'll ignore everything but). However after purchasing I went onto the 'net to read up on my gorgeous sunflower seeds, and it turns out that they are an F1 pollenless hybrid! Things not mentioned on the packet: pollenless f1 hybrids. Also, the picture on the packet showing pollen laden stamens seems rather contradictory.

I am not gruntled in the least about this. I shall plant them to see, but I'm also going to have to buy some definitely en-pollened seeds too.